【推荐2】Anna was very particular about food. She never ate the wonderful pizzas or ice creams her mother made, which were her parents' _______ . She just ate other things. Anna was _______ , but her parents were both fat. Their likes were her dislikes. _______ , everyone wondered who she had taken after. Anna's parents thought she was ill.

One day, they went to see a doctor. He took them to a machine. Then he put a plate of fish in front of them, and _______ on the machine.

It started playing sounds: waves' _______ sound and the songs of seabirds. After some time the doctor _______ the fish with fruit and vegetables. The sounds of the sea _______ , and there came the sounds of gentle wind, birdsong, and rain. All of them enjoyed the beautiful sounds of nature, but the doctor _______ the plate again, and this time it was a dish of meat. The machine started making lively sounds: the sound of _______ animals. Still quite pleasant. Then the doctor brought a strongly smelling pizza. The machine seemed to ________ down. Instead of beautiful sounds, out came noisy sounds. The noise was so disturbing that the family had to ask the doctor to change the ________ of food. The doctor brought them ice creams, burgers and candy...but they thought the sounds were still ________ . Finally Anna's parents asked the doctor to bring fruit back.

"Anna isn't ill,'' said the doctor." She can understand each type of food's own ________ . It comes from where the food was born, raised, and prepared. Anna wants to eat the food whose music is ________ . That's why she's slim and healthy."

These days, they all look slim, ________ from then on, in the house pizzas, burgers, puddings, and ice creams were replaced by fruit, vegetables, and fish.

What did your dinner sound like today?

【推荐3】As a child, I was always told to “eat my greens”. These were the unappealing vegetables that sat on the edge of my plate. Peas, and green beans, all looked and tasted ______. Let’s face it, when there were so many other delicious treats to _______, why eat boring vegetables?

Since then my taste buds have ______ and I’m also fully aware of the health benefits of eating fresh vegetables. But we still need ______ of the amazing goodness these green super foods give us. In the UK, a campaign has been ______ for several years to encourage us to eat our “5 A Day”—five portions of fruit and vegetables. That’s ______ evidence has shown there are significant health ______ through getting at least five 80g portions of a variety of fruit and vegetables every day.

But I struggle trying to fit these five portions into my daily ______, partly because I have a sweet ______ and vegetables are, well, tasteless. Researchers have been ______ how to make eating vegetables more ______. They analyzed the psychology behind our food ______ and found that most of us are ______ by taste. Brad Turnwald from Stanford University says that “studies show that people ______ to think of healthier options as less tasty for some reason.”

In Europe, a project called VeggieEAT has also been trying to find ways to get people to ______ more vegetables. Project leader, Professor Heather Hartwell believes in ______ encouraging people into eating the right things. One idea is to put a ______ of a tasty looking fruit on a supermarket trolley as a ______ about buying something from the fruit store after looking at the picture. She says, “Choice is a really ______ thing. But making vegetables look attractive will increase their sales.”

Certainly, eating “twisted citrus-glazed carrots” does sound tempting, even if it just tastes like a carrot, but if it makes us eat more vegetables then that can only be a ______ thing for our health.

【推荐1】“Working long hours poses an occupational health risk that kills hundreds of thousands of people each year,” the World Health Organization says.

People working 55 or more hours each week face a(n) _________ 35% higher risk of a stroke and a 17% higher risk of dying from heart disease, _________ to people following the widely accepted standard of working 35 to 40 hours in a week, the WHO says in a study that was published in the journal Environmental International.

“No job is _________ the risk of a stroke or heart disease,” WHO Director — General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said, _________ governments, businesses and workers to find ways to protect workers’ health.

The global study, which the WHO calls the first of its kind, found that in 2016, 488 million people were _________ to the risks of working long hours. In all, more than 745,000 people died that year from overwork that resulted in stroke and heart disease, according to the WHO.

“Between 2000 and 2016, the number of deaths from heart disease _________ working long hours increased by 42%, and from stroke by 19%,” the WHO said as it announced the study, which it conducted with the International Labour Organization.

The study found the highest health _________ from overwork in men and in workers who are middle-aged or older. Regionally, people in Southeast Asia and the Western Pacific region had the _________ exposure to the risk. People in Europe had the lowest exposure. In the US, less than 5% of the population is exposed to long working hours, according to a map the WHO published with the study. That proportion is _________ to Brazil and Canada — and much lower than Mexico and in countries across most of Central and South America.

Several steps could help __________ the burden on the workers, the study states, including governments’ adopting and enforcing __________ standards on working time. The authors also say employers should be more flexible in scheduling, and to __________ their employees on a maximum number of working hours. In another step, the study __________ workers arrange to share hours, so no one is working 55 or more hours in a week.

To compile (编写) the report, researchers reviewed and __________ dozens of studies on heart disease and stroke. They then estimated workers’ health risks based on data drawn from a number of sources, __________ more than 2,300 surveys on working hours that were conducted in 154 countries from the 1970s through 2018.

【推荐2】“What do you want to be when you grow up?” When I was a kid, I ______ the question. Adults always seemed terribly disappointed that I wasn’t dreaming of becoming something grand or ______, like an astronaut.

Now, as an organizational psychologist, my job is to fix other people’s jobs, and I’ve come to believe that asking youngsters that question does them ______.

My first complaint about the question is that it ______ kids to define themselves in terms of work. If we define ourselves by our jobs, our ______ depends on what we achieve. So when you are asked what you want to be, it’s not socially ______ to say “A father” or “A mother”, let alone “A person of integrity”.

The second ______ is the implication that there is one calling (职业) out there for everyone. Research shows that ______ one leaves students feeling lost and ______. After all, not everyone has that talent for grand jobs.

If you manage to ______ the above barriers, there is a third hurdle (难关) : careers rarely live up to your childhood ______. In one study, looking for a(n) ______ job left college seniors feeling more anxious and less satisfied with the ______. As Tim Urban writes, happiness is reality minus expectations. It’s clear how expectations ______ our perceived happiness. If you are looking for extreme happiness, you’re bound to be disappointed.

Asking kids what they want to be leads them to ______ a career identity they might never want to earn. Instead, invite them to think about the different things they might want to do.

【推荐3】Truth be told, a life-changing college experience doesn’t begin or end with a high GPA or great university tour. And although parents and teachers alike work diligently to prep their students with the cutting-edge classes and impressive transcripts, they’re _______ one vital skill: emotional intelligence.

A poll of 1,502 first-year college students in the U.S. found that a majority of them wish they had received more _________ preparation for college. Emotional preparedness is _________ “the ability to take care of oneself, adapt to new environments,_______ negative emotions or behavior and build positive relationship,” according to the survey.

“Survey data indicate that college readiness requires far more than just a solid academic foundation – a find that seems _________ conventional higher education preparation, said John MacPhee, Executive Director of the Jed Foundation, which co-sponsored the survey. “It is clear that emotional preparedness should be better _______ the work that high school communities are doing to guide students through the transition into college.”

Data show that college students _______ far more than their academics – and their stress can take a serious toll(代价) on their _______ in school. Forty percent of survey participants felt pressure to pay for college expenses, followed by 30 percent who said their biggest _______ was to make new friends.__________, keeping in touch with family and friends not at their college (28 percent) and being independent (16 percent) also weighed heavily on college students’ shoulders.

All of these __________ had a negative impact inside and outside of the classroom. Students who felt less emotionally prepared for college were more likely to have a lower grade point average, regularly ____________ drugs and/or alcohol, and rate their overall college experience as terrible or poor.

“As high school seniors start applying to college around this time of year, parents and people ____________ in their lives can play an important role in helping children build confidence and life skills, said Marisa Giarnella-Porco, Co-Founder, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Jordan Porco Foundation, a survey co-sponsor. “It is important to __________ them to choose a college that best fits their needs first and foremost – not only in a(n)__________ sense, but also relative to emotional needs.”

Thankfully, whether your child is packing up for school this fall or still in diapers, it’s never too late (or too early!) to begin prepping them for university life. Here’s what parents should do to help their college-bound kid, starting now.

【推荐2】“Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.” said Henry David Thoreau the famous writer. Everything about my future was roughly assumed. I would get into debt by going to college, then I would be _______ to get a job to pay it off, while still getting into more and more debt by buying a house and a car. It seemed like a never-ending cycle that had no place for the _______ of a dream.

I want more-but not necessarily in the _______ sense of personal wealth and success. _______, I want a passion, a dream that wouldn't let me sleep out of pure excitement. I want to spring out of bed in the morning, rain or shine, and have that _______ for life that seemed so intrinsic (本能的) in early childhood.

We all have a dream. It might be _______ defined or just a vague (模糊的) idea, but most of us are so _______ in the mud of insecurity and self-doubt that we just dismiss it as unrealistic or too difficult to achieve.

We become comfortable with the life _______ for us by our parents, teachers, traditions, feeling that it's stupid and unsafe to risk losing it for the _______ hope of achieving something that is more fulfilling.

The policy of being too cautious is the greatest __________ of all. Taking chances is what makes life exciting for me. That __________ can be viewed negatively, or it can empower (授权) us.

Failure is what makes us grow __________. The fear of failure, however, holds us back. So __________ I couldn't see the future as clearly as before, I took the plunge in hopes that in the depths of fear and __________, I would come out feeling more alive than ever before. Always remember to take a deep breath and realize that being __________ can be a turning point of finding out who you truly are, and what you truly want to do.

【推荐3】The past ages of man have all been carefully labeled by anthropologists. Descriptions like ‘Palaeolithic Man’, ‘Neolithic Man’, etc., neatly sum up whole periods. When the time comes for anthropologists to turn their attention to the twentieth century, they will surely choose the ________ ‘Legless Man’. ________ of the time will go something like this: in the twentieth century, people forgot how to use their legs. Men and women moved about in cars, buses and trains from a very early age. There were lifts and escalators in all large buildings to ________ people walking. This situation was forced upon earth dwellers of that time because of miles each day. But the surprising thing is that they didn’t use their legs even when they went on holiday. They built cable railways, ski-lifts and roads to the top of every huge mountain. All the beauty spots on earth were spoiled by the ________ of large car parks.

The future history books might also record that we were ________ of the use of our eyes. In our hurry to get from one place to another, we failed to see anything on the way. Air travel gives you a bird’s-eye view of the world - or less if the wing of the aircraft happens to get in your way. When you travel by car or train a ________ image of the countryside constantly smears the windows. Car drivers, ________, are forever obsessed with the urge to go on and on: they never want to stop. Is it the lure of the great motorways, or what? And as for sea travel, it hardly deserves mention. It is perfectly ________ in the words of the old song: ‘I joined the navy to see the world, and what did I see? I saw the sea.’ The typical twentieth-century traveler is the man who always says ‘I’ve been there.’ You mention the remotest, most evocative place-names in the world like El Dorado, Kabul, Irkutsk and someone is ________ to say ‘I’ve been there-meaning, ‘I drove through it at 100 miles an hour on the way to somewhere else.’

When you travel at high speeds，the present means ________: you live mainly in the future because you spend most of your time looking forward to arriving at some other place. But actual arrival, when it is ________, is meaningless. You want to move on again. By traveling like this, you ________ all experience; the present ceases to be a reality. The traveler on foot, on the other hand, lives constantly in the present. For him traveling and ________ are one and the same thing: he arrives somewhere with every step he makes. He experiences the present moment with his eyes, his ears and the whole of his body. At the end of his journey he feels a delicious physical ________. He knows that sound. Satisfying sleep will be his: the just ________ of all true travelers.